August 8, 2016

Peer Education: Supporting Lower-risk College Students Before the Risk Is High

The Alcohol and Other Drug Education and Assistance program at Kennesaw State University (north of Atlanta) is on a prevention mission: to find and support the 20 percent of under-the-radar college freshmen who aren't quite at high risk for drug usage but aren't exactly low risk, either. By offering a "prehab" session and questionnaire within freshman seminar courses, trained lecturers who are students themselves hope to help first-year college students make better decisions about substance use before it's too late.

"This is where we're finding people who are low risk and intervening before they habituate, before the behavior," says Patrick Moore, a licensed professional counselor who worked with KSU’s Center for Young Adult Addiction and Recovery at the time of this interview.

NEW YORK — Thousands of teachers, administrators and other education professionals from across the country are gathering in midtown Manhattan Friday for the National AfterSchool Association’s annual conference, with the goal of bringing the nation’s most successful programs and initiatives to a broad audience. “We looked for who is doing the best work, and where,” said Erin Leonard, a spokesperson for the conference.

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